It probably won’t be that long before some organism evolves the ability to digest plastic.
The year is 50424
Submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Icalasari@fedia.io 2 years ago
Already exists, actually. Just not widespread yet
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Cool, dient know that. Now just hope they don’t make us sick or we’re really screwed. With all the microplastics in our bodies they’re going to be everywhere.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
sasquash@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
maybe we will evolve crab-like anyways. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Y’all aren’t crabbing yet?
meleethecat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek?
Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Long days and pleasant nights
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s enough time for us to evolve into carbon dioxide plastic eating beings, isn’t it?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 years ago
For something completely new like that 50k years is not all that much.
Perhaps enough time for the existing plastic eating bacteria to spread across the world, tho a lot of plastics are buried deep in soil already, so artefacts might survive. Same as with wood, before the wood/cellulose eating bacteria got all over the place, dead trees just for buried. So at high pressure plastic might turn once again into oil.
JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Tf is that?
anosym@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Weebs are eternal
NoiseColor@startrek.website 2 years ago
It would probably just be microplastics by then?
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Those crabs will probably just be microplastic by then, at least if our trajectory as a species has anything to say about it.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Always has been.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 years ago
I think 50k years is a bit too short for major evolution to happen. And 5 million years too long for plastic figures.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 years ago
curious what reference they use for year 0.
any theories?JCreazy@midwest.social 2 years ago
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Such a stupid system. AD and BC are the same amount of letters. CE and BCE don’t line up when written. Drives me crazy!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Are pixels like super valuable that far into the future?
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It takes a lot of energy to send them back in time
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Version charges an arm and a leg to time-bandwidth